Simple Mobile Tools -> Fossify Tools
Whoa, I didn’t know about this! My trustworthy beloved orange apps were sold to ZipoApps, a company that flips apps into ad revenue.
But has anything changed for the worse yet? I don’t see any odd commits in the history (e.g. Draw). I’ll probably just lock the F-Droid version of the Simple gear I can’t switch.
I haven’t looked at the commits, I just switched the simple apps to the fossify versions. I thought they had switched all the apps over.
OpenOffice was a really solid Microsoft Office rival, and FOSS to boot. Made by Sun Microsystems, of course, and then ruined by Oracle (of course).
Thankfully LibreOffice was forked from it and is still going strong as a very capable suite of document tools. And OpenOffice is basically dead, womp womp.
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And before OpenOffice there was Star Office.
Now I feel old.
Especially as I also remember when I used to write with Lotus Word Pro.
Gitea, took control away from community and gave it to a for profit organization. Forgejo was born
GNOME spawning 3 new DEs every time they have a major version update
look under the hood
They’re Gnome with extensions and a theme
DuckStation recently changed to a source-available license that prohibits distributing modified versions of the software and prohibits commercial use. Before, it was GPLv3.
Also OpenOffice, Emby, Audacity, Android (AOSP) (soft forked to LineageOS and GrapheneOS, but no hard fork)
Sorry, I couldn’t understand your comment. Could you please explain it better?
DuckStation recently changed to a source-available license that prohibits distributing modified versions of the software and prohibits commercial use. Before, it was GPLv3.
DuckStation is an emulator for some Sony PlayStation console.
PS2, I thinkThanks to FangedWeyvern42@lemmy.world I know that it was a PS1 emulator. This software used to be given to users under the GPLv3 license, which grants freedoms such as distribution of the source code of the software (DuckStation) for no extra cost (well, DuckStation also costs no money! …so, you get to eat the cake and learn its recipe too, for free!).…Now they’ve switched to a license which allows you to see the source code, but does not grant you rights over the source code that GPLv3 did (which is essentially ANYTHING as long as you publicize everything you make with the source code, under the GPLv3 license also - changes to the code, new software that uses any portion of the code, anything you make with it).
OpenOffice, Emby, Audacity, and Android (the “Android Open-Source Project”) have also done this in the past.
Knowing this stuff on Free, Libre, and Open-Source (“FLOSS”) platforms like Lemmy is almost necessary given that they’re built on these principles. Please get acquainted with them.
Funnily enough, Libre Office is another great example of this, being forked from Open Office (and also way better).
Thank you very much, this helps me.
What’s the difference between a soft fork and a hard fork, besides being careful with your teeth?
Soft forks try to maintain code compatible so changes can apply to both code bases. Normally done when there’s hope of a future merging of the code lines. They rarely work, as eventually thing get hard.
rip audacity
fuck muse group
Lately? Firefox…
They seem so directionless lately, and by god is AI the wrong horse to bet on for their users.
I should check out LibreWolf…
Any good alternatives that use the same engine, but aren’t just “Firefox after rustling the about:config a bit”?
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There are many examples of this, but one that comes immediately to mind is the evolution of my favourite LDAP-enabled music player, airsonic-advanced
Subsonic begat libresonic
Libresonic begat airsonic as well as a whole bunch of other projects.
Airsonic begat airsonic-advanced
Airsonic-advanced begat kagemomiji/airsonic-advanced, however the maintainer of the parent codebase, randomnicode, wants to do the right thing and get their code up to snuff with the opensubsonic API (not sure where that fits in to thr history) so kagemomji can take over.
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They all have their quirks, but until airsonic-advanced catches up with the latest opensubsonic API, I’ve been trying out Audinaut, DSub, and Ultrasonic. I had to reorganize my whole library, though.
I’m not a fan of these album-based apps. most of my music falls under “Various Artists”. As such, I’ve been playing around with Musicbrainz Picard to try different tagging in an attempt to try to find something that works across both at the server and client end.
Subsonic doesn’t work for me, I’m guessing because it refuses to fall back to earlier versions of their API. I could be wrong.
Insomnia suddenly turned into a ransomware. Pay up or have all you dara lost!
A few days later Insomnium popped up supporting the old file format.
Oh thanks! I switched to Bruno but much of our company still uses Insomnia and I’ve been pushing to get it blacklisted, because of the dark pattern, and the likelihood of tricking staff to upload credentials.
Too bad Insomnium quickly became a dead project. Luckily, Bruno and its file-based projects are perfect.
Redis / Valkey
Fixed minecraft(terrible name)->Harmony/Melody
Maybe a bit niche, but if you’re in the Scala ecosystem and seen what happened with Akka -> Apache Pekko. Version one of Pekko was a 1-1 rename of Akka
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